Kitchener Camp report and other papers
Extent and Medium
1 folder
Biographical History
Ernest Joseph was educated at St Paul's School and devoted himself to Jewish youth from his twenties until days before his death. In the First World War he worked to provide buildings for what later became the NAAFI and was promoted Major and awarded the MBE. In the years before World War II he worked to provide for the influx of Jewish refugees from Germany. He returned to NAAFI work in World War II and was appointed OBE in 1947.
Ernest and his wife Emma had been founder members of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in 1910. His father had toyed with the Jewish Religious Union, his status as architect to the United Synagogue notwithstanding. Ernest became Honorary Architect to the Union of Liberal and Progressive Synagogues and was responsible for the design of their premier building at St John's Wood in 1925 and for its reconstruction after bomb damage in November 1940. (The building was demolished in 1991 and only the portico remains.) He played a prominent role in the affairs of this synagogue, being elected to the Council in 1929, and serving as treasurer between 1936 and 1953 and vice-president from 1953 until his retirement in 1956.
Archival History
Ernest Martin Joseph was the maternal grandfather of the donor.
Acquisition
papers re kitchener camp etc
Donated 31.3.2014
Donor: Cohen, Colin
Scope and Content
Papers of and about Ernest Martin Joseph including transcript of a lecture on the history of Richborough (Kitchener Camp) for refugees and protocol of a meeting of thanksgiving for Ernest Martin Joseph's life.
Conditions Governing Access
Open
People
- Joseph, Ernest Martin
Subjects
- Kitchener Camp
- Refugees